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LOT 0344
Bronze Age Gold Spiral Hair Ring
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
5/8 in. (17.2 grams, 17 mm).
Formed as an ellipsoid-section tapering rod with the ends flattened.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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Bronze Age Gold Hair Ring
Early 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Formed as a round-section tapering rod with the ends flattened. 1.6 grams, 11mm
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970s-2000s. -
Bronze Age Spectacle Pendant
Early 1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Formed as a loop with one broader half, integral suspension bar with ribbed collar. 9.3 grams, 71 mm
Ex Surrey, UK, collection, 1980s. -
European Bronze Age Silver Torc-Shaped Ring Money
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
Round-section penannular bar with clubbed ends. 11.5 grams, 31 mm
Ex property of a late Japanese collector, 1970s.
